No, it was the dress that caused distress. Fellow independent style maven, Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor, who owned several LBDs, once said of the versatile garment: "When a little black dress is right, there is nothing else to wear in its place. And, swiftly embraced as a staple of French elegance in the 20s, the shape-shifting LBD nearly 90 years on is still going strong, with a family of icons still fuelling its myth

One of the Cosmos' grandfather clocks, this one at the top of the stairwell on a second floor landing /Photo by Patricia Leslie The view from the grandfather clock /Photo by Patricia Leslie Some of the 61 Pulitzer Prize winners and Cosmos' members, pictured on the ground floor beyond the entrance hallway /Photo by Patricia Leslie Some of the 36 Nobel Prize winners and Cosmos' members, pictured on the ground floor beyond the entrance hallway /Photo by Patricia Leslie Some of the 55 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom Award and Cosmos' members, pictured on the ground floor beyond the entrance hallway /Photo by Patricia Leslie Dolley Madison (1768-1849) presides over her room with a face rendered not as attractive as the one we have come to love and adore /Photo by Patricia Leslie A U.S
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